FOR those rich enough to be able to install wind turbines and solar voltaic panels, the electricity generators must, by law, pay the owners more per kilowatt-hour than the electricity is worth.

This handsome profit is guaranteed, index-linked, for at least the next 20 years.

This cash cow has been jumped on by millionaire landowners, who have installed wind farms and acres of solar panels.

Businessmen with large industrial roofs and local authorities with their school roofs have all scrambled to get on board the solar gravy train. And then there are the middle classes with their expansive roofs, glittering with this new fountain of cash.

But who pays the extra money for the electricity generated? Well, the genius behind this scheme was none other than Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party – while he was Energy and Climate Change Secretary – and his wheeze was to get all the other electricity users to pay the rich and well-off.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t the land or the roof space to jump on the Feed-in-Tariff bandwagon, you will find your electricity bills have been increased by a certain amount to compensate the generators for pouring money into the coffers of those who have.

So the poorer sections of society are subsidising the rich, and it’s all Labour’s idea. When the current Government tried to stop this enormous rip-off of the disadvantaged, by lowering the Feed-in-Tariff, Friends of the Earth and the Green Party had the cheek to take them to court to protect these bonuses for their wealthy ‘friends’.

When the Green Party says cutting the Feed-in-Tariff is “an eco-betrayal”, they really mean robbing the poor to subsidise the rich is a scam they are determined to maintain.

KEITH DANCEY, St Peter’s Road, Wolvercote